Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

This is a remote position.

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Work on things that matter

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior DevOps Engineer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s DevOps and software engineering strategy. You may serve as the discipline’s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in software engineering processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior DevOps Engineer include:

Strong influential skills to collaborate across teams to consolidate and simplify DevOps tools and services

Serves as a mentor to individuals within the team

May leads small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects

Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers

Capable of self-directed cloud infrastructure design and pipeline design, including cloud-specific product offerings, and tradeoffs between cost, reliability, and efficiency

Builds libraries, modules, and packages for other infrastructure engineers to integrate with their projects

Builds cloud infrastructure that supports applications and Improves the broader developer experience for engineers

Develops CI/CD processes to help deliver software of higher quality at greater speed

Integrates tools to satisfy non-functional requirements such as quality thresholds, security vulnerabilities, and static analysis

Builds specific application test and deployment pipelines using automated tooling such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Circle CI, Gitlab CI

Proactively works with our government partners and app teams to ensure that we are shipping software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirements

Participates in technical depth interviews with new candidates

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's and 7+ years of experience

Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in at least one infrastructure-as-code tool (e.g. terraform, ansible)

Expertise in key DevOps concepts: installing software, virtualization, containerization, networking, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

Prior government contracting exprience

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:

Benefits:

Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

401K with employer match

Paid parental leave after one year of service

Employee Assistance Program

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.

In support of various State and City Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $120,000 - $130,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

Full-time

Fully remote